At the appointed time, the spacecraft should glide within 7,767 miles of Pluto, NASA says. Then, 14 minutes later, past its jumbo moon, Charon.

“The only way for New Horizons to observe Pluto’s elusive night region is to see it in ‘Charonshine,’” said the spacecraft’s deputy project scientist Cathy Olkin. “It’s almost time for the big reveal, and I couldn’t be more excited.”

And if that whets your appetite for more, you can check out a Pluto-themed planetarium show at the Virginia Living Museum in Newport News.

At 12:30 p.m. every day through Sept. 7, the Pluto Show will be asking (and answering) questions like, What’s the deal with Pluto? Is it a planet or not? What do we really know about this mysterious little world, anyway?

The show is geared for children 8 and older.

The museum is located on J. Clyde Morris Boulevard between Warwick Boulevard and Jefferson Avenue.